An Uber self-driving car has hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona, marking the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle and a potential blow to the technology expected to transform transportation.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is facing calls from US and European politicians to explain how a consultancy that worked on President Donald Trump's election campaign gained improper access to data on 50 million Facebook users.

The Philippines has taken a step towards making divorce legal, with the lower house of Congress passing a law allowing people to dissolve marriages, despite opposition from the president and bishops in the mainly Roman Catholic country.